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This page features the full text ofPresidential Decree No. 1735IMPOSING
ADDITIONAL PENALTIES FOR REBELLION, INSURRECTION, SEDITION AND
SUBVERSION
COMMITTED WITHIN OR OUTSIDE PHILIPPINE TERRITORY.

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PRESIDENTIAL
DECREE NO. 1735

IMPOSING
ADDITIONAL PENALTIES FOR REBELLION, INSURRECTION, SEDITION AND
SUBVERSION
COMMITTED WITHIN OR OUTSIDE PHILIPPINE TERRITORY.(This
law has been repealed by Executive
Order No. 187, S. 1987)

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WHEREAS,
it is imperative in the public interest to impose for the offenses of
rebellion,
insurrection, seditionand subversion
whether committed within or outside theterritory
of the Republic of the Philippines, the additionalpenalties
of forfeiture of the rights of citizenship, and of real or personal
property
belonging to the accused.
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NOW,
THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS,President
of the Philippines by virtue of the powers in me vested by the
Constitution,
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Section
1. Any person found guilty of
subversion, rebellion or insurrection, or sedition, or conspiracy to
commit
rebellion, or insurrection, or sedition whether committed within or
outside
the territorial jurisdiction of the Philippines, shall suffer the
penalty
of forfeiture of his rights as a citizen of the Philippines, if he is a
Philippine citizen, and confiscation of his property, real or personal,
in favor of the State, in addition to the penalties prescribed for the
offense under existing law.
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Sec.
2. After the arraignment of an
accused who is charged with any of the offenses mentioned in Section 1,
the trial may proceed notwithstanding the absence of the accused,
provided
that he has been duly notified and his failure to appear is
unjustified.
Judgment may be promulgated in absentia and the penalty of confiscation
of his properties in the Philippines may be immediatelyexecuted.

Done
in the City of Manila, this 12th day of September, in the year of Our
Lord,
nineteen hundredand eighty.
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